Music, When Soft Voices Die

Elgar, Edward;
Vaughan Williams, Ralph;
Moeran, Ernest John;
Stanford, Charles Villiers;
Bridge, Frank;
Parry, Hubert

Quink Vocal Ensemble

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Quink is the Netherlands’ premier solo vocal ensemble, founded in 1978, which has won a string of awards for its albums of motets, partsongs villancicos and more ranging over 500 years of music. Turning to the rich repertoire of late-19th and early-20th-century English and Irish music, Quink has made a complement to its previous recording of music by Vaughan Williams and Finzi, which received critical praise for its ‘technical elegance and fine spirit’ (BBC Music Magazine). The madrigal found a home in Elizabethan England after its creation in mid-17th-century Italy with the works of Gibbons and many others, and survived longer there than in the rest of Europe, where it fell out of fashion in the 18th century. Nonetheless, the Victorian age saw a revival in what had become a neglected genre of consort work, and many glee clubs were formed to sing earlier work, as well as stimulating the composition of new ones such as are found here.

Works:
• Bridge: In Autumn
• Bridge: Music, when Soft Voices Die
• Bridge: O weary Hearts
• Bridge: The Bee
• Elgar: Love, Op. 18 No. 2
• Elgar: O happy eyes, Op. 18 No. 1
• Moeran: Songs of Springtime
• Parry: Modern Lyrics (6)
• Stanford: At the Mid-Hour of Night
• Stanford: It is not the Tear
• Stanford: O Breathe not His Name
• Stanford: Shall we go dance
• Vaughan Williams: Love is a Sickness
• Vaughan Williams: Silence and Music
• Vaughan Williams: Three Elizabethan Partsongs

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

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